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Originally Posted by baddog
Not trying to be flippant, just wondering. Besides gas, what in your life has gone up in price lately?
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the cost of everything is going up. The rise in the cost of petroleum products has driven the production of biofuels up to new highs. New competitive markets are opening for grain crops. Market prices for grains are at a high for years now. This is driving the cost of food up considerably. How much are you paying for a loaf of bread now compared to say 2-3 years ago? The price has damn near doubled.
The cost of putting fuel towards transportation of goods is driving delivery prices up, which is driving retail price of products up, just so that retailers can meet their margins. Whether or not you have noticed the cost of everything is slowly on the rise. Not so slowly in some instances. All this is going on at a time where wages simply are not going up much at all.
When you're a 20 year old student who can barely afford to put fuel in your car and feed yourself, stealing your porn starts looking like a damn good alternative to dropping 3-4 days worth the meals on a porn membership. Hell, it's gonna start making things tight for a lot of people. It's bound to have some effect on what is mostly a disposable, easy to find for free product like online pornography...